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One thing is certain about the Department of Water and Power’s massive effort to convert more power generation to renewable sources and meet clean water standards: It will cost money. Daily News

And if the DWP is going to sell the rate hikes needed to pay for all this to a skeptical public and City Council, it’s going to need a lot of help from its newly established Office of Public Accountability.

Voters on March 8 overwhelmingly approved Measure J to create the office and appoint a ratepayer advocate, who will review all rate increases.

Republican former Assemblywoman Sharon Runner easily defeated Democrat Darren W. Parker in early returns Tuesday in a special election to fill the state Senate seat that had been held by her husband. Kevin Modesti in the Daily News,

George Runner represented the district from 2004 until November, when he resigned in the middle of his second term after being elected to the state Board of Equalization.

This would be the second time Sharon Runner follows George Runner into office. She won the first of her three two-year terms in the Assembly in 2002 after he was forced out by term limits.

President Obama met Thursday with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and a delegation of mayors, offering assurances of continued investment in cities.Daily News,

Villaraigosa, who chaired the delegation as part of the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, D.C., said he was encouraged by the president’s remarks and meetings he held with Republican leaders.

“The president made it abundantly clear that job No. 1, the highest priority, is creating jobs,” Villaraigosa said in a telephone interview after the hour-long meeting.

CHATSWORTH – The campaign for the only open seat in the 2011 Los Angeles City Council elections began Wednesday night with candidates trying to outdo each other in their loathing of business taxes and love of horses.Kevin Modesti in the Daily News,

The occasion was a public question-and-answer session – put on by the Chatsworth Neighborhood Council – that marked the first joint appearance by the five men and one woman vying to succeed retiring City Councilman Greig Smith as representative of District 12 in the northwest San Fernando Valley.

In the order they’ll appear on the March 8 ballot, they are engineer Dinesh “Danny” Lakhanpal, real-estate agency owner Kelly M. Lord Jr., business development specialist Brad Smith, restaurateur Navraj “Singh”